US Patent Issued to PROCEPT BioRobotics on Jan. 28 for "Method for removing intact cells from a surgical site" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,803, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method for removing intact cells from a surgical site" was invented by Nikolai Aljuri (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Surag Mantri (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical treatment apparatus comprises a waterjet configured to fragment tissue and provide intact cells such as stem cells with the fragmented tissue. The intact cells can be used in one or more of many ways such as for genetic or other testing. In many embodiments, the intact cells comprise stem cells. In many embodiments, a waterjet is configured to fragment tissue....